WHAT IS "Confirm Stream Loss" when copying files

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Trying to copy a group of files and folders to a CD-R
that will be distributed as retail software being sold
to users running Windows 95, 98, and XP.

When I copy the files from the current directory and go
to paste them into the CD Drive directory for burning, I
but am getting a pop up that says "Confirm Stream Loss"
and says "The file xxxxx.txt has extra information
attached to it that might be lost if you continue
copying. The contents of the file will not be affected.
Do you want to copy the file anyway?" and I am given the
choices of YES - SKIP - CANCEL.

What does this mean and how does it affect making program
files on CD available to customer>>

Burned a beta cde earlier today and the person tried it
on a Win 98 system and could not get the drive to read at
all. Is this related or just coinidence?
 
Sounds like those files may have alternate data streams. If you made
them, only you know why.
 
It could be the sumnmary infomation.
Kent W. England said:
Sounds like those files may have alternate data streams. If you made
them, only you know why.
Click to expand...
 
I dont even understand what Alternate Data Streams ARE,
so I sure did not make them intentionly...

The files include a screensaver .exe file, a readme.txt,
a few .wav and .bmp files, and then the related support
files for the included autorun menu created using
autoplay express program.

I'm running WinXP Home with Norton Internet Security and
using the built in cd burner on XP to create cd's when I
am getting the message.

Any help in understand how these work and is it possible
to "clean" the streams off my file without effecting how
they run? I just cant be selling software that may have
hidden viruses or somethinhg attached to them!

Thanks!
 
If you right click a non office document (office Docs support somne streams internally) and edit the summary info this is stored in a stream. Unless you are making your own streams this is all it's likel;y to be.

While XP supports streams - the user interface (with the exception of summary info which is an addin program) doesn't. It can't read them, see them, or make them. There is no support in the GUI. And very limited support in the command prompt,. Programs don't use it either. So it's summaryinfo. This is a feature for the future.
 
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